Nightmare on elm street is about an undead man named Freddy Krueger who was a child molester and murderer. He, hiself was killed by the parents of the murdered children by way of incineration. However, Freddy Krueger comes back to the descendents of his murderers dreams. These dreams become horrific realities, finding that one by one, most of the descendents are killed.
The conclusion that I came to and will ellaborate further on, is the idea that when we take justice into our own hands and murder someone who is evil, we have not erased all the deeds he/she had done, nor have we stopped the many more evil individuals out there. Just because one evil being is killed doesn't mean his evil doesn't linger on. The dream sequences in these movies are violent and show us that even in our most relaxed state of mind, we are suseptible to our innermost fears.
Defining reality from dreams becomes skewed in this series. Never knowing exactly where the line is drawn. It shows the kids dancing on the line of consciousness and subconsciousness, only to be met with their untimely deaths.
There is usually only one child left alive at the end of each movie. He/she is usually the one who can, in fact separate the dreamworld from reality and face the fears head on, taking on Freddy Krueger.
Aristotle
Because our 'common sense' faculty that usually distinguishes between fact & fancy is absent during sleep, we are thus prone to the amazing fantasies of dreams, beyond correction of our judgement or evaluation. However he does qualify this slightly by making one of the first historical references to the faculty of lucid dreaming, by saying, 'often when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.'
Decartes
" At this moment it does indeed seem to me that it is with eyes awake that I am looking at this paper; that this head which I move is not asleep, that it is deliberately and of set purpose that I extend my hand and perceive it;"
" But in thinking over this I remind myself that on many occassions I have in sleep been deceived by similar illussions, and in dwelling carefully on this reflection I see so manifestly that there are no certain indications by which we may clearly distinguish wakefulness from sleep that I am lost in astonishment. And my astonishment is such that it is almost capable of persuading me that I now dream. " (Soloon, 192)
JOB IV. 13-14
" When deep sleep falleth on man, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake" (Nightmare on elm street 4)
Nightmare On Elm Street
Nightmare on elm street is about an undead man named Freddy Krueger who was a child molester and murderer. He, hiself was killed by the parents of the murdered children by way of incineration. However, Freddy Krueger comes back to the descendents of his murderers dreams. These dreams become horrific realities, finding that one by one, most of the descendents are killed.
The conclusion that I came to and will ellaborate further on, is the idea that when we take justice into our own hands and murder someone who is evil, we have not erased all the deeds he/she had done, nor have we stopped the many more evil individuals out there. Just because one evil being is killed doesn't mean his evil doesn't linger on. The dream sequences in these movies are violent and show us that even in our most relaxed state of mind, we are suseptible to our innermost fears.
Defining reality from dreams becomes skewed in this series. Never knowing exactly where the line is drawn. It shows the kids dancing on the line of consciousness and subconsciousness, only to be met with their untimely deaths.
There is usually only one child left alive at the end of each movie. He/she is usually the one who can, in fact separate the dreamworld from reality and face the fears head on, taking on Freddy Krueger.
Aristotle
Because our 'common sense' faculty that usually distinguishes between fact & fancy is absent during sleep, we are thus prone to the amazing fantasies of dreams, beyond correction of our judgement or evaluation. However he does qualify this slightly by making one of the first historical references to the faculty of lucid dreaming, by saying, 'often when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.'
Decartes
" At this moment it does indeed seem to me that it is with eyes awake that I am looking at this paper; that this head which I move is not asleep, that it is deliberately and of set purpose that I extend my hand and perceive it;"
" But in thinking over this I remind myself that on many occassions I have in sleep been deceived by similar illussions, and in dwelling carefully on this reflection I see so manifestly that there are no certain indications by which we may clearly distinguish wakefulness from sleep that I am lost in astonishment. And my astonishment is such that it is almost capable of persuading me that I now dream. " (Soloon, 192)
JOB IV. 13-14
" When deep sleep falleth on man, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake" (Nightmare on elm street 4)